856 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



ment of our subjects in the said Newfoundland and in the seas ad- 

 joining, and for the benefit of the said trade there we do hereby 

 straightly charge prohibit and forbid all and every the owners of 

 ships trading in the said Newfoundland fishery that they nor any of 

 them do carry or transport or permit or suffer any person or person- 

 to be carried *or transported in their or any of their ships to me said 

 Newfoundland other than such as are of his or their own or other 

 ships Company or belonging thereunto and are upon the said ships 

 hire and employment or such as are to plant and do intend to settle 

 there. And because that speedy punishment may be inflicted upon 

 the offenders against the laws and constitutions aforesaid We do 

 ordain as was formerly ordained by our said late father that every 

 of the mayors of Southton, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Lyme 

 Plymouth Dartmouth Eastlowe Foy and Barnstaple for the time 

 being may take cognizance of all complaints made oy any offenders 

 against any of the^laws or ordinances aforesaid upon the land and 

 by oath of witnesses examine the truth thereof and award amends to 

 the parties grieved and punish the delinquents by fine and imprison- 

 ment or either of them and of their goods found in the parts of New- 

 foundland or in the sea cause satisfaction thereof to be made by 

 Warrants under their hands and seals, And the Vice- Admirals in 

 our Counties of Southton Dorset Devon and Cornwall upon com- 

 plaint made of any of the premises committed upon the sea 

 514 shall speedily and effectually proceed against the offenders 

 Also we will and ordain that these laws and ordinances shall 

 stand in force and be put in due execution until we shall otherwise 

 provide and ordain And we do require the Admiral in every har- 

 bour in this next season ensuing calling together such as shall be in 

 that harbour publicly to proclaim these presents and that they also 

 proclaim the same on the shore In Witness &c Witness our self at 

 Westminster the six and twentieth day of January. 



PER IPSUM REGEM 



No. 3. 1660: British Statute, 12 Charles II, Gap. 18. 

 AN ACT For the Eiicouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation. 



" For the increase of shipping and encouragement of the naviga- 

 tion of this nation, wherein, under the good providence and protection 

 of God, the wealth safety and strength of this Kingdom is bo much 

 concerned ; " (2) Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent 

 Majesty, and by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament 

 assembled, and by the authority thereof, That from and after the 

 first day of December one thousand six hundred and sixty, and from 

 thence forward, no goods or commodities whatsover snail be im- 

 ported into or exported out of any lands, islands, plantations or 

 territories to His Majesty belonging or in his possession, or which 

 may hereafter belong unto or be in possession of His Majesty, his 

 heirs and successors, in Asia, Africa, or America, in any other ship 

 or ships, vessel or vessels whatsoever, but in such ships or vessels 

 as be truly and without fraud belong only to the people of England 

 or Ireland, Dominion of Wales or town of Berwick upon Tweed, or 

 of the built of and belonging to any of the said lands, islands, planta- 



